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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part1''Who are the Asmat''
By Daniel Tejashun,2/6/12 period 4 Culture and Geography
The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture in west Papua Indonesia.
West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australia in
the south pacific ocean
The traditional Asmat are one of the last hunter gatherer cultures in the world.
One tradition of the Asmat is the Piercing of the septum of the nose.
Another tradition of the Asmat is painting the faces and body ceremony and war.
Traditional Asmat culture is truly cool.
Sadly though deforestation colizanation and assimilation are deeply affecting the asmat
irreversibly this is the ending of one of earths last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. the modern world
is taking over the Asmat.
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